look at bellingham with the computer estimating 3.5 inches of rain. the highest totals north of the border, but everyone gets rain throughout the day today. be prepared for that throughout the morning and on your way home from work and school. will be much lighter there than they are down in washington state. looks like we stay mild with another chance of rain over the weekend, this time for california. >> thank you so much, bill. >>> well, coming up, the stock market is flirting with a record. the biggest complaints among air travelers, and what caused a deadly house explosion that rocked a neighborhood. "early today" is back in two minutes. >>> welcome back. here are some other stories making news this morning. in a 71-26 vote the senate has given former white house chief of staff jack lew the green light to replace tim geithner as treasury secretary. lew faced questions from the senate over a million-dollar amount that he received in 2008. >>> also, president obama and congressional leaders unveiled a full-length statue of civil rights icon rosa pa

especially from olympia to bellingham. as the rain comes at us from the north and northwest, this is associated with the warm front lingering along the coast trying to move in. damp weather for the morning commute. if you are driving down i-5 today, tomorrow looks better. we are seeing a clearing trend. we have had high pressure off the west coast that's been very strong. now the high pressure ridge back here over areas of salt lake city will strengthen heading throughout the weekend. that's a change in the weather pattern and a change in the wind direction for a few spots, including southern california as this high pressure begins to strengthen it is in a position to provide us with some of the santa ana winds. we'll see strong wind gusts in the mountains and canyons of southern california, 50 to 60 miles per hour, but it will also bring a much warmer temperature all the way to the coast. we'll watch that and dry it up there to the north. you do get warm. today is 76 in l.a. over the weekend we get to about 80 on saturday

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. >> reporter: bruce bellingham says wait a minute! lower polk used to be very rightfully!t one point, the center of the gay community. it was the castro before the castro >> almost like mardi gras every day. it was wild, and anything went. >> reporter: the supervisor's proposal still has some hurdles if go through. but it's expected in the next few months. >>> a look at three men police want to find in connection with a triple homicide in sonoma county. the sheriff released photos from a video taken at a gas station in st. helenna. authorities believe these men may be the accomplices. they are driving a barj-color -- a beige ford ranger that was involved. the main suspects, mark capelo arrested in mobile, alabama, on valentine's day. heel be extradited to sonoma to face charges. >>> the bodies of three men were found in a house in forestville february 5th. the sheriff says there was a lot of blood, but no weapon was found. >>> a makeshift city is growing like a weed right in the middle of san jose. it's so big you can see it from a plane when you're approaching the airport

notice the storm track being pushed even farther to the north places like seattle and portland and bellinghaming to get some sunshine from this, as well. so obviously for us, we will still be under the influence of the high. as it moves closer to us we have been talking about this the past couple of days, the winds shifted. the breeze was offshore from the northeast so we had 70 and we'll be there tomorrow and saturday. then the winds change again. as high pressure begins the process of moving out, the flow of air will come from the cool pacific ocean, which temperature is 52 degrees. so we get the flow from there inland, we'll down to 60 by president's day. then we have a low pressure area moving in on tuesday giving us our second rainfall of february. that's coming up next week. next week will be wetter an cooler. 70 tomorrow in oakland. 70 in san jose. concord close to 68. san mateo 60s. pleasanton 67. concord 66. 70 for napa. and mid- to upper 60s for mill valley and san francisco. here is your extended forecast. close to 70 for two more days. sunday sunshine the mid-60s. we are cooler by

towards oakland and back on the bay bridge, looks like fso and a little bit around half-moon bay and bellingham. green is turning to white and we have mention precipitation up into mendocino and lake county and that's the main part of the system. 40s and 50s and i think thunderstorms with hail, this system is coming in with primetime, late morning, early after noon cold rain, unsettled into wednesday, it might clip us on thursday, and i don't think there will be anymore in the way of precipitation. we are finally getting more in the way of snow since january it has been dry but do you have a little bit of snow, brian? >> reporter: just a dusting at 2027 feet, you can see on the ground it is not much but we will celebrate as we know more is on the way. it was just enough to bring up chain controls on interstate 880, chains dropped and folks were unprepared as we know and more is on the way. we didn't see any rain in sacramento and it is on its way, this takes us over the mountains and the condensation kicked up a little bit of snow and winter weather conditions after that long dry spell. we have

. >> a self admitted sif eye geek in bellingham washington turned his unusual hobby into a life changere boy in south africa. he's made cool gadgets this is cool stuff but it was his costume hands that cost the eye of a mom. she asked if he can make something for her 5-year-old son lee yam, -- liam born without fingers, when liam bends his wrist, cables pull and his fingers close. >> he made a real saigs of how it fink functions he shouted "it copies me" now, liam is picking up coins and an amazing life changer for little liam whose family could not afford the mechanical hand. ivan made this one for just 150s oodz michael finney is here now to answer questions you've sent to him and this one comes from rich asking where can i go with my guide dog? including restaurants, airplanes, airports, medical centers into your doctor's office. if you can go there, the dog can go there. only time there is a tweak is here in the state of california a companion animal can go anywhere but federal rules don't always allow that including on airplanes but for a kog dog, guide dog, anywhere. >> next one i

well back here a self admitted sci-fi geek in bellingham turned his unusual hobby into a life changerin south africa. he explains the mechanical helping hand. >> when he isn't selling school supplies ivan likes making strange devices. there's the rapid fire ping pong ball launcher out of a leaf blower. remote control bowler hat but the costume mechanical hand that caught the eye of a south african watching you tube. >> i lost my fingers. have you ever considered taking what you have done here with this and maybe finding a way to apply it to the sort of problem. >> 2 men 10,000 miles apart began collaborating. >> this is an exact cope of richard writ hand. >> with a 3d printer they combine the best of the design. mom in south africa saw them on facebook and help the 5-year-old son born without fingers. >> he just lack ability to grasp anything. >>reporter: he's fit with this hand. >> he remarked it looked like robot hand. >>reporter: he's doing things he never expected picking up coins. holding a basketball when the boy bend the wrist cable pull and fingers close. opening opportunity.

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the lumme nation, comprks, which i visited just last week in bellingham, washington, have seen an increase in violence against women over the past several years. the house substitute would require mistreatment of indian and non-indian offenders while the bipartisan senate bill fill this gap. for these reasons i urge my colleagues to oppose the substitute amendment and support the senate re-authorization bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california reserves and the gentlewoman from washington is recognized. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you, madam speaker. i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from west virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. ms. cap it toe: i rise to support the re-authorization of vawa, violence against women act -- mrs. capito: i rise to support the re-authorization of vawa, the violence against women act. i witnessed firsthand the good work that they do and that other statewide advocates do in this area of sexual assault and violence against women, and i realize this is way long overdu

the lumme nation, comprks, which i visited just last week in bellingham, washington, have seen an increase in violence against women over the past several years. the house substitute would require mistreatment of indian and non-indian offenders while the bipartisan senate bill fill this gap. for these reasons i urge my colleagues to oppose the substitute amendment and support the senate re-authorization bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california reserves and the gentlewoman from washington is recognized. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you, madam speaker. i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from west virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. ms. cap it toe: i rise to support the re-authorization of vawa, violence against women act -- mrs. capito: i rise to support the re-authorization of vawa, the violence against women act. i witnessed firsthand the good work that they do and that other statewide advocates do in this area of sexual assault and violence against women, and i realize this is way long overdu